Also called middle rhyme, a rhyme occurring within the line The rhyme may be with words within the line but not at the line end, or with a word at the line end and a word within the line, as in Shelley's "The Cloud," I bring fresh showers, for the thirsting flowers (See also Leonine Verse)
rhyme that occurs within a single line of Verse An example is in the opening line of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven": "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary " Here, "dreary" and "weary" make an internal rhyme